Running 1.7.16 on Slackware-14.1. I used svn about a decade ago and am now starting a new project and want to start fresh with the tool. I've read the book, particularly Chapters 2 and 5 several times and still have questions whose answers I don't find in the book.
The repository is located in ~/development/svn-repos/. Following the section "Planning Your Repository Organization" in Chapter 5 I created two project root directories which I'll call project-A/ and project-B/. Under each of these I created the subdirectories of branches/, tags/, and trunks/. However, running 'svnadmin create ~/development/svn-repos/' from ~/development failed because the directory existed so I removed the svn-repos/ subdirectory and re-ran the svnadmin create command. Then I recreated the two project subdirectories (root, branches, tags, and trunk). When I run 'svnlook info file:///home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/' this error is reported: svnlook: E000002: Can't open file 'file:/home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/format': No such file or directory Yet, that file is present: ls svn-repos/ README.txt conf/ db/ project-A/ format hooks/ locks/ project-B/ Is this error generated because I've not yet imported either project? To import the current code for each project, I assume that I need to cd to that project's subdirectory before running 'svn import'. When I specify the repository location with file:///home/rshepard/development/svn-repos/project-?/ do I also need to specify the trunk/ subdirectory? When I clarify how to get the repository directory structure correct, and use the correct syntax to populate each project's repository, I will use that same syntax to checkout and commit changes to each project. Rich
